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It’s getting pretty bizarre when the headlines read, “Hoodie wearing gunmen kill”. Here’s a heads up, guns don’t kill people, hoodies don’t kill people, evil and stupid people kill people. Blacks aren’t the only ones who wear hoodies, whites wear hoodies too, like my lily white granddaughter and her lily white friends. It’s not the hoodie that’s sinister, it’s youths that have no respect for other people let alone the law, that are sinister. It is somewhat interesting to note that this happened in Rep. Rush’s back yard and that it totally negated his point from his antics in the House of Representatives yesterday. I have a solution, let’s ban hoodies.

Former Black Panther Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) made quite a fuss when he donned a “hoodie” during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives until he was escorted out. At the time, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “applauded his courage”for doing so.

Meanwhile, back home in Rush’s district, two men wearing hooded sweatshirts, or “hoodies,” were the shooters in an incident that left one dead and five injured.

In fact, during a span of six-hours Thursday night, 13 people were shot, leaving two dead in Chicago. It would seem it takes more courage to simply walk down the street in Rush’s district than it does to wear a hooded sweatshirt in the House of Representatives by way of a stunt in a bizarre tribute to a young man shot and killed in Florida during a shooting incident still under investigation.

The worst shooting occurred around 6 p.m. Thursday when two men in hooded sweatshirts opened fire inside a convenience store in the 1400 block of West 79th Street in the Gresham neighborhood, police said.

One man was killed and five others were wounded. The victims ranged in age from 16 to 24. The gunmen fled in an SUV and police continued searching for them this morning.

Perhaps if Bobby Rush and Nancy Pelosi ever got around to actually doing something to uplift the people in Rush’s district, there would be fewer stories like the one above out of Chicago, and less need to don a piece of clothing in Congress in what amounts to an empty and silly gesture.